TexasDeck;1536588 wrote:I say yes to drug testing kids and most parents these days. It is better to catch them early and maybe have a chance to stop it before it cost someone their life. I figure if a kid has nothing to hide they won't mind being tested a couple times a year
This works if, and only if, those managing the testing, as well as their line of superiors, can forever be trusted to always be honest and benevolent.
To quote Cardinal Richelieu, "If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged."
That is to say that even if a person has nothing to hide, it doesn't stand to reason that someone else wouldn't desire to, and be able to, either find something worth hiding or plant something worth hiding.
Think along the plot lines of movies like Minority Report, Enemy of the State, The Fugitive, The Negotiator, etc.
Now, these are just movies, of course. But the fact that framing of innocence like this can exist within the culture's plausibility structure is reason enough to not approve the framework that harbors the potential for such events. We do, after all, have plenty of examples of politicians being caught doing things they are not supposed to do, and I don't think it would surprise anyone if we were to learn that someone else was blamed for the actions of someone with authority.
So long as those put into positions of authority at any level are fallible, I'd just as soon they have as little power as possible, and I'd suggest that the right to randomly drug test falls outside the grounds of necessary authority.